Madison Margolin
By Madison Margolin
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Opinion I Don’t Want Birthright Telling Me What To Think About Iran
“Help the State of Israel by contacting your congressman and senator and requesting that they reject this deal and override President Obama’s veto of their decision.” That was a plea sent out on Tuesday to New York-area Birthright alumni by “The Alumni Community.” Is it right for this group to impose the political viewpoint of…
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Life Aly Raisman’s Nude Photoshoot Isn’t As Scandalous As You Think
In October 1977, Barbra Streisand asked, “What’s a nice Jewish girl like me doing on the cover of Playboy?” Now with Jewish two-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman posing naked for ESPN The Magazine’s Annual “Body Issue,” we’re asking a similar question. “It sounds like a Jewish mother’s nightmare,” writes JTA’s Andrew Tobin about Raisman’s photo…
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News After Charleston, Houses of Worship Debate Saving Souls vs. Saving Lives
On a recent Sunday morning, a white Jewish guy wearing a backpack entered the First African Methodist Episcopal Church: Bethel in Harlem, without a problem. A black usher wearing white gloves greeted him warmly at the door and gave him a service pamphlet. The young man found a seat on a plush green bench and,…
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Life Why ‘Clueless’ Heroine Is Still a Role Model
It’s been 20 years since Cher Horowitz, heroine of the 1995 teen classic “Clueless,” revolutionized what it means to be a Jewish American Princess. Today, Cher’s legacy is a cultural staple, evident in our speech, fashion, and even our values. Innocent, sassy, and “totally clueless,” Cher Horowitz, played by Alicia Silverstone, was based loosely on…
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Opinion We’re Not Screaming — It’s Just Yiddish!
After coming over to my house, a new friend once asked me about the “argument” he’d just witnessed between my mother and me. “What argument?” I asked, perplexed. “You know,” he reminded me, “the one you had five minutes ago — about the curtains in your room.” “Oh, that? That wasn’t an argument, we were…
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Life Six Jewish Women We’d Like To See On The $10 Bill
With the Treasury Department’s decision to boot Alexander Hamilton off the $10 bill in place of a woman, we have until 2020 – a century after women achieved voting rights – to choose which lovely lady to take his place. While the decision is ultimately in the hands of Jack Lew, the Treasury secretary, he’s…
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Opinion How Birthright Is Failing the Pro-Israel Cause
“So you’re going to support racist nationalism to get a free trip?” That’s the question a college housemate asked me when I returned from Birthright. She had seen the freshly uploaded photos that decorated my Facebook profile that week: my friends and I slathered in clay at the Dead Sea, riding camels in the Negev,…
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Music Violinist Completes Father’s Piece Cut Short by Nazis
In Raanana, Israel, Eugene Drucker’s brown eyes welled with tears as he finished a rendition of Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77, which his father began 80 years prior in Germany, only to be cut short by anti-Semitic Nazi policy. Accompanied by the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, the 63-year-old, says his father, Ernest Drucker,…
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